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Chicago examiner vol vi no 281 a m friday november 13 1908 14 pages prtcf one cent elivered by carrl-jf ri\ll_.l unc v.c.11 1 30 cents per kontb bunaparte to take oil trust case to supreme court this month attorney general formally an nounces that government will force matters certiorari writ sought j prosecutors see opening jn i different reasoning of baker ! and grosscup washington nov 12 foi ! lowing conferences lasting ' more than twelve hours to ! day at the department of justice at torney general bonaparte late to 1 night issued the following statement a conference was held at the de ' partment of justice with respect to ' the action of the circuit court of ap , peals in Chicago in refusing a re-hear . ing of the standard oil case at dif ' ferent times during the day attorney l general bonaparte was in consulta tion with solicitor general hoyt ? united states attorney edwin w i sims of Chicago and his assistant - james r wilkerson and f b kel logg special counsel in the civil suits against the standard oil it was found that a considerable | number of changes had been made in the opinion of the court of appeals originally rendered and that judge baker of that court had filed a separ â– ate concurring opinion which differed ' materially in its reasoning from that ', of judge grosscup i appeal io supreme court after a careful consideration of all phases of the situation it was deter * mined that an application should be * made to the supreme . court of the ' united states when it reconvenes on t monday november 30 for a writ of ! certiorari to bring up and review the ' action of the circuit court of appeals j the necessary papers for this pur â– pose will be prepared without delay ' immediately after the conference to , night mr kellogg who had been sum ' moned from new york to take part ln it was driven to the white house where he had a short consultation with presl ( dent roosevelt mr kellogg returned to new york to-night the purpose of the conferences to-day was to determine finally on the govern ment's br.r making application for the witt of certiorari new points are presented i the appeal to the supreme court was * determined on when judge grosscup ren i dered his adverse decision which had beeu i upheld by the court of appeals tho ' draft of the brief was prepared then but the later decision of the court of appeals : presented new points which the govern i ment desired to take advautage of and the general conference of standard oil prose : eutors was called to weigh the brief as finally drafted i had two alternatives the decision reached at the conference to , carry the flght over the 9,240,000 oil fine to the supreme court ls ln accordance with | the plan contemplated when the circuit court of appeals in Chicago reversed the flne the subsequent affirmation of the de cision by the judges of the intermediate court last tuesday left the government's * legal forces with two alternatives these were to submit to the ruling as ** final judgment and bring the trust to trial ' again on the same indictments or to apply ' for a writ of certiorari in the united ' states supreme court thus getting if the application ts granted the right to review the entire case the choice of the latter course as indi cated ln the attorney general's formal statement was based primarily upon ap parent contradictions in the two opinions given by jndge grosscup and his associates the material differences referred to hv the attorney general ln the concurring opinion given by circuit judge baker also will b made the basis of argument in the high tribunal revives rtunors of friction the development of this point as a legal 1 1 contention by the government lawyers re 1 ' tlv'es recent rumors that there existed con ' siderable friction between judge grosscup and judge baker over the legal merits of i the original opinion in what particular points the two jurists j differ mr bonaparte and his aids decline j to specify also lt has not been made i clear by lawyers participating in the pros 1 ecutlon how a difference of opinion be ! tween the two jurists would affect the le , gallty of final judgment concurred in by nil three members of the court whatever these contention are they will be prepared in printed form for submission ; to the supreme court november 30 the petition for the writ probably will be pre pared ln washington but lt ls likely that before lt ls signed mr sims and mr wil kerson will be called into consultation british squadron to brazil cape town nov 12 the british squadron under bear admiral sir percy scott composed of the cruisers good hope antrim carnarvon and devonshire left here io-day for rio janeiro brazil chinese emperor dead 3-year-o1d nephew on throne is pckin report public refuses to believe official de nial that ruler has succumbed bulletin says end is near pekin nov 32 recurrences of the rumor that the emperor is dead continue ii is also reported that puvl his nephew has beer placed on the throne although it is officially denied that kwang tsu is dead the popular belief nevertheless is that he has succumbed to the affliction from which he has beeu suffering for some time at the same time the officials connected with the imperial household do uot deny that the emperor ls critically ill and that there is no nope of his recovery reports say that in addition to nis other afflic tions his brain is affected and that he is no longer mentally competent it is un derstood that the foreign diplomats have advised their governments that the em peror is very ill and not likely to sur vive every effort ls being made by the im perial household to conceal the emperor's real condition according to announcements from the imperial palace various court functions have been taking place at stated times bnt these declarations are not gen eraliy credited and it is believed that they have been given out only as a blind seme time ago the british and german legations offered the best occidental medical attention nt their command but these of fers were declined by the emperor who replied that as they bad uot been able to cure him of his kidney affection at previous treatments he would rely npon the chinese medicine men atttached to the imperial court prince fuyi who is rumored to have been seated on the throne is the eldest son of th emperor's brother and is not yet three years old any sane man of 21 liable to personal tax if one is outside poorhouse he can not escape says attorney any man who ls twenty-one years old of sound mind and not in the poorhouse is subject to personal tax peter schultz as sistant county attorney so declared yes ie ay after receiving a lei*-r of protest from e p dunshee collector superin tendent of public works and secretary of the board of local improvements it is utterly impossible for a man of mr dunshee's standing to be without per sonal property said the assistant county attorney and then he defined personal property here are some of the things you ought to be paying taxes on the cjdthes you are wearing and the clothes ln your closet your pocketkuife watch chain rings and scarfpins money tnat you bave in the bank or in your purse credits due you from real estate or any other source canes and umbrellas expert to prepare elkins family tree genealogical information will be gathered for royal history elkins w va nov 12 1t is said here to-day that the family of senator s b elkins is considering engaging an ex pert genealogist to compile the elkins fam ily tree with intellectual attainments and social culture miss elkins friends de clare she is gifted by birthright to cer tainly as great a degree as the duke of the abruzal has inherited from his royal ancestry it was reported that miss mar garet wade who has been social secretary to mrs fairbanks wife of vice president fairbanks and who ls one of the best authorities on washington and interna tional society and an old friend of the family has been asked to assist in pre paring the genealogy in event of miss elkins marriage into royalty this genea logical information would be demanded for the royal history and court archives cousin of italian king plans colony in canada ottawa ont nov 12 marquis de longhi de pastorl a cousin of king victor emmanuel of italy ls at present in canada on an important mission for the italian gov ernment â€” the acquisition of a large tract of land ln the west for the purpose of establishing a colony of italians he passed here to-night on his way to vancouver with regards to the contemplated com pany lt is understood the colonist of the better agricultural and industrial classes will be sent out legislator accused of primary frauds republican leader smejkal is likely to be among to day's indictment returns aid jailed for contempt pope who refused subpoena offers to confess after ar rest by court's order kdward j smejkal representative ln the Illinois legislature and prominent leader in the nineteenth ward was yesterday | accused of attempts to lntlm'date voters at the august primaries ln a true bill voted by the special grand jury the indictment will be one of about twenty that will be returned to judge freeman this afternoon and will prob ably be the most important several in ' dietmeuts will be voted this morning and n this number it is possible that another man holding an important public office may be included michael pope 124 pe koven street a po litical supporter of smejkal was sent to jail late yesterday afternoon for contempt of court for iefuslng to appear before the grand jury to give testimony against his leader in connection with the frauds in the twenty-second precinct of the nineteenth ward more indictments expected to-day fourteen indictments had been voted this week against election officials and politicians in the eighteenth and nine teenth wards up to last night and this morning's work will in all likelihood bring the total up to twenty nine true bills were voted yesterday the grand jury made its first official inquiry into the eighteenth yesterday and several indict ments were the immediate result wit nesses from the same two wards will ap pear to-day smejkal was a candidate for renomlna tlon to the lower house of the legisla ture at the primaries he was also a candidate for re-election as precinct cap tain of the republican organization and was successful in both on november 3 he was reelected to the legislature evi dence heard by the grand jury was that smejkal induced several of his friends and helpers to stand near the polling place and frighten away doubtful voters it is understood pope could give the state important testimony regarding the intimidation a grand jury subpoena was served on him at his home late wednes day night to appear at the criminal court building the following morning but he told the special officer that he wonld not go unless an officer was sent for him when be failed to appear yesterday morning the matter was brought to the attention of judge freeman who issued a rule for contempt against him and in structed deputy sheriff w p holden to hrinj bin at once into court pope was located about 4:30 o'clock in an alley ln ihe rear of the daily news office and taken into custody as both judge free man's court and the grand jury bad then adjourned for the eday pope was lodged in jail he will be taken before the grand jury this morning and will later appear before judge freeman rrest may expedite inquiry pope who is twenty-nine years old and a newspaper carrier broke down complete ly after being placed ln a cell and prom ised tbat he will tell all he knows about the frauds this morning attorney loesch thinks his experience will serve as a warn ing and will expedite the inquiry smejkal who will be taken into custody this afternoon is one of the signers of the bond given last week for the appearance of o j chott one of the first men in dicted in conseqnenee lt may be neces sary for chott to find another bondsman this matter will be decided to-day by at torney james h burr who has been placed in charge of the bond department of the loesch organization while the grand jury to-day probes fur ther into conditions in the eighteenth and nineteenth wards the loesch force will be busy with a further preliminary hearing of witnesses from the first ward this work may be completed early next week when reports of fraud in the fourth and fifth may be taken np investigators are collecting evidence now ln the ninth and tenth wards mr loesch will appear ln judge mack's court to-dny to hear the injunction case ln i vvhlch it is sought to restrain the county â– ffieials from paying out any of the 19 r.oo appropriated by the county board for the expenses of the investigation sjiould the injunction be issued no member of the staff will be able to collect salary for the ! present at least the county board will also hold a meet ing to-day after judge mack has passed upon the injunction petition catholic prelate will help Taft boom golf archbishop o'connell of boston be comes devotee of game boston mass nov 12 archbishop o'connell ls doing his share to help presi dent-elect Taft make golf famous whether or not taft's pronunclamento has anything to do with it or not the arch bishop refuses to say but taffs boom of the game appeared in tuesday's morning papers and the archbishop started in for the game tuesday afternoon the arch bishop had his name put np at the oakley country club and the allston golf club the two most exclusive clubs of new eng land in both of which he was admitted to-day he went out to the oakley links in his automobile and took his first lesson i'm going in for a game every day now he said americans do not get enough exercise that is one great trouble with american men to-day golf comes as a great blessing to me stately girl's hat in flames at party friends chat prevents panic when miss graver's paris creation burns gas ignites skyscraper waiter with tablecloth smoth ers fire and young woman takes to bed at a fashionable entertainment yester day afternoon in the big house at 369 su perior street which her grandfather built miss margaret grover met with an acci dent that coat her a paris hat and might have cost her life if a servant had not rushed to her rescue the voluminous piece of french millnery caught fire from a gas jet and flamed up like a torch spreading panic among the hundreds of guests who had assembled there by invitation of mrs jauies breek inridge waller to hear john fox jr read from his own works after the reading the guests moved out to the tea room miss grover tall and stately was among the crowd the paris hat with its beautiful feathers mara bout and ospreys overtopped the crea tions of the shorter women by six or eight inches as miss grover passed under the gas jet the topmost feather caught the flame and began to sparkle like a fuse defore any one could lift a hand the marabout and ospreys were m flames and a flare of fire went up that illuminated the whole room neither miss grover nor miss heleii poole with whom she was chatting knew what had happened although they looked around curiously at the sudden augmenta tion of light in the ten room don't tell her whispered mrs mark willing to mrs john borden if she were to attempt to reach the hatpins now she would only set her gown afire too some one on the outskirts of the crowd who did not have so much presence of mind as mrs willing screamed what in the yorld is the matter said miss grover to her companion what ia all this commotion about do you suppose meanwhile the flames above her wavey brown hair were leaping higher and higher miss lucy blair whispered to a waiter who darted away in search of a tablecloth or something with which to stifle the fire and then she engaged miss grover iu con versation do tell me what is the matter with everybody exclaimed the young woman absolutely unconscious of her peril miss blair changes subject indeed i don't know replied miss blair i heard somebody say that mme seheff had fainted wasn't the reading delightful perfectly lovely said the human torch by this time the other guests had taken their cue from miss blair and mrs will ing instead of rushing wildly out of the room or trying to take miss grover's bat off they laughed and chatted with jicrfeet composure until the waiter returned with a table cloth he made a dash for miss grover that frightened her half out of her wits but the cry she uttered wus smothered in the cloth the mau threw over her head by tbis means the tire was stilled and when miss grover learned of her narrow escape she almost collapsed at her mother's home 408 division street it was stated last evening that she had taken to her bed althouga she had not been burned in the least miss grover is iu no condition to dis cuss the accident now was the message that was brought downstairs mrs waller said last night that she had not heard of the accident until it was ali over i don't think ls could have been very serious she said because there was no panic or anything of that sort miss grover is a granddaughter of gen eral f h winston who put up for himself the home now occupied by the wallers entertainment nets 1,000 the entertainment yesterday afternoon was a benefit for the self s pporting worn â– en's home and netted about 1,000 aiuoug me guests we,e iu frltzl scheff who ls engaged to marry mr fox mrs alexander stevenson mrs edward blali miss lucy blair mrs franklin mucveagh mrs martin mr and mrs arthur j eddy mrs james stone mrs bryan lathrop mrs harold mecormick mrs george cobb mrs redmond stephens mrs lyon miss marjorle bob bins miss margaret bllliugs mrs moses wentworth mrs charles c cedset mrs john k gott mrs frederick j winston mrs bertie winston miss dorothy fuller miss margaret cobb mrs john borden mrs mark willing mrs w j calhoun miss helen poole and mrs j m harlan girl whose blazing hat broke up reading friend who averts panic in the wpper picture is shown the young woman whose hat ca-ughi fire at entertainment ; beloiv her friend who coolly chatted ivith her until aid arrived and thus prevented injury or panic scientist lost ten years found insane m w harrington once weath er bureau head in asylum as john doe no 8 new york nov 12 a search lasting the greater part of ten years and extend ing from one end of the country to the other ended a few days ago when profes sor mark w harrington once chief of the united states weather bureau nnd one of the best known scientific . men in america wns found a hopeless lunatic in the xew jersey asylum for the insane at morris plains until last monday professor harrington was registered as john doe no 8 picked up in a park in trenton eighteen months ago unable to give bis name and witb no papers on his person to disclose his identity professor harrington was sent to morris plains where he might have remained for the rest of his life had not his son raymond harrington read in a western paper three weeks ago a descrip tion of a mysterious patient in the asylum young harrington's suspicions were aroused and he communicated with his mother who lives ln this city mrs har rington visited morris plains when john doe no 8 was led into her presence she identified him as her long missing hus band he however did not recognize her until last monday iu the morris plains asylum said mrs harrington to-night 1 had not seen my husband for nearly ten years when he disappeared in the latter part of october 18ud we were living with our sou raymond iu mount vernon that morning professor harrington kissed ray mond and myself good-by and said he was going to new york ou a business mission he did not return i began a round of the hospitals oue day 1 received a str-juge sounding letter from liiiu the following february i re ceived a letter postmarked washington lu that 1-tter he said he expected to receive a government appointment he did uot say a word as to why he had left home or when - expected to return / one month later a letter from my sister in baltimore told me that she had seen uiy busbaud ou the street there but did not speak to him as he seemed demented i made up my mind that he had deserted me and our boy then the other day came the letter from raymond when the mysterious patient at morris plains was ushered into my presence i knew him immediately as mv loug-missiiig liiisb.iiiil but he did not seem to know me kern is asking aid in fight for senator ship laporte ind nov 12 a1l doubt as to the candidacy of johu w kern for united states senator was removed to night by the receipt of a letter by johu rl faulkner democratic representative elect soliciting his support northern lu diaua democrats are generally favoring b f shlveley of south bend but in the event of a break kern la likely to be fa vored joke on roosevelt wall street smiles president is to be editor of magazine owned by a standard oil man new york nov 12 theodore roose velt should he hold to his contract with the outlook company to be special edi torial contributor will be indirectly ou the payroll of the standard oil corpora tion the oil corpora n couldn't buy mr rooseveit on the hoof as it did other public men but it harnessed him just the same at a contract price to add circula tion to a publication in which one of its big men is the controlling owner men in wall street those who win real success never have two eyes closed nt the same time so it is said and this encour ages a habit of learning all about every body's business not out of curiosity but in the hope that lt may pay some day there was amusemeut therefore last week among bankers who know things when tlie news was confirmed that after march 4 mr roosevelt would draw a fat salary from the outlook nud speak to ever increasing thousands exclusively through tlie publication a few wall street men who have regarded the president as the one man ln public life who couldn't be fooled gasped when they tirst htard tiie news and then laughed immoderately the story was too good to keep and in un adorned i*onn was made public to-day in tlle lawyers club the ' chief owner of the outlook com pany is james stillman president of the national city bank and one of the chief financial advisers of the standard oil and harriman properties the chief editor of the outlook in the rev dr lyman abbott whose great distinction was won ! when he succeeded the rev henry ward beecher as pastor of plymouth church [ it is said mr stillman own a clear ma | jority of the outlook company's stock and when officials of the publishing concern ! were offered an opportunity to deny this to-day they declined all they would say was tbat there would not be any change in the present control there wits bidden humor therefore as wall street saw it in the announcement by the outlook that the duties of mr roosevelt as special con tributor would be analogous to that of consulting engineer this is john i rockefeller's one best joke said a pro-ninent financier to-night when be heard about it puritans committing race suicide is charge boston mass nov 12 1n a paper on the perpetuation of the church read at the union conference of the congrega tional churches of boston nnd vicinity t*e rev g l cady of dorchester declared the puritan stock is committing race sui cide i find he said fifty-six churches which boa.it of a single ehnd each for last year nnd sixty-three wrhleh reported twins each his figures showed twenty-three chi rclu ... which with a combined membership ot 7,494 with 7,270 in tt suu.l â– seta â€¢;,;_, and with 1.474 young pe ie in the endeavor societies were able iu a year to show nly six new births woman tries to hire men to kill her mother such is the charge upon which mae otis is held by the police offered 2,500 they say detectives play part of thugs and are paid 100 in advance victim's wealth sought demure bookkeeper credited with having suggested the trap for parent kx tss mae otis a demure book i 1 keeper employed by the â€¢ â– *** kleine optical company waa arrested last night and locked up ln the harrison street police station an nex on the charge of attempting to procure the murder of her mother mrs sarah otis a widow who lived in the rear of 328 walnut street unknown to her the thugs she employed were two detectives from the central station dennis mackey and peter fitzpatrick i don't want a poor job she told them last night when she . gave their 100 as a sort of retaining fee un derstand now she isn't to be injured a little bit and sent to the hospital . if that were to happen it would be all up with me i want the job done right we're the men to do lt right . swaggered mackey gives note for 2,400 more very well then said miss otis here's your hundred and here's m note for 2,400 more when the job ii done the funeral is over and i hava the money the sum for which this seemingly mild and harmless young woman desired tha : life of her mother waa 7,300 if the daughter bad happened to get hold of a real thug there ts no doubt that the deed wonld have been done next saturday night captain of detectives o'brien bays mrs otla was to be summoned bad from mnuston wis where she ls visiting her parents mr and mrs w jackson falker and a married sister mrs mary underwood she was to be under the im pression that she was returning to the home of another married sister mrs anna . smith where she had lived while ln chl , cago the fact tbat mrs smith had . moved to 871 park avenne a few days ago was to be concealed from her i all details are planned it had all been figured on.t by the daug ter to the minutest detail the road which her mother would take from mauston the station where she would get off the time of her arrival and the time that would be required for her to get to her old home in the rear of 328 walnut street there , the murderers were to be lying ln wait foi . her ' , t no mention was made as to the method . to be used in the killing that was left entirely to the judgment of the supposed ; thugs miss otis only stipulation was 1 that it was not to be a bad job and ; that there shouldn't be any hospital pre i lude to the death of the old woman calls on private detectives about a week ago the bookkeeper ealle ; at the offlce of r c stolpman superln itendent of the keystone detective agency ishe gave him her name and address and ihe rather liked her manner and treated her , i witb the utmost deference miss otis la 1 j thirty-six years old but looks mnch yonng er she boards at 640 forty-sixth place . i want you to find out something about jmy mother's estate she said to superin tendent stolpman yes ma'am answered the detective settling back in his chair and waiting fot further details his attitude seemed to embarrass the woman and she toyed nervo-usly with her handkerchief for several mliinies before resuming the conversation you said yoo wanted some information prompted stolpman and then according to captain of de tectives o'brien the following converst tions and events look place yes i do replied the woman tou see ihis is the situation my father died twelve years ajio and left a lot of money â€” i don't know just how much i ought to have got some ot it but i didn't get a cent and i have to slave for siy living while mother sralavant aronnd the country . and baa â€¢>. good time s e l only hfty-seven years om and goodness knows when she will die now wnnt i v.-__ii pan to do lg to find ont how money she has nnd whnm it te placed btpjpnun took ibe commission and said weather forecast Chicago and vicinity partiy cloudy and continued cool friday and saturday moderate westerly winds iuimx___iim oooooooooo â€” i the methods j 1 employed by the ex i 5 \ aminer to bring results i 0 i to its help and situa 1 2 \ tion wanted advertis i d i ers are modern they i q 1 combine newspaper pub 1 g \ licity witfi the best fea 1 q 1 tures of employment i 2 i agency methods if you 1 ps \ are a competent worker 1 q 1 in search of a situation i q \ you cannof afford to 1 q \ overlook the merits of 1 q i the examiner's situ 1 2 \ ation wanted columns 1 q i try them and receive the 1 o \ benefits of the service j x 1 of the 8 examiner employment exchange i 70 washington street 115 fifth avenue i 776 milwaukee avenue lcst character cannot be recovered through a want ad but lost property can be especially if the ad be inserted in the examiner's lost and found columns phone ran dolph 2500

Chicago examiner vol vi no 281 a m friday november 13 1908 14 pages prtcf one cent elivered by carrl-jf ri\ll_.l unc v.c.11 1 30 cents per kontb bunaparte to take oil trust case to supreme court this month attorney general formally an nounces that government will force matters certiorari writ sought j prosecutors see opening jn i different reasoning of baker ! and grosscup washington nov 12 foi ! lowing conferences lasting ' more than twelve hours to ! day at the department of justice at torney general bonaparte late to 1 night issued the following statement a conference was held at the de ' partment of justice with respect to ' the action of the circuit court of ap , peals in Chicago in refusing a re-hear . ing of the standard oil case at dif ' ferent times during the day attorney l general bonaparte was in consulta tion with solicitor general hoyt ? united states attorney edwin w i sims of Chicago and his assistant - james r wilkerson and f b kel logg special counsel in the civil suits against the standard oil it was found that a considerable | number of changes had been made in the opinion of the court of appeals originally rendered and that judge baker of that court had filed a separ â– ate concurring opinion which differed ' materially in its reasoning from that ', of judge grosscup i appeal io supreme court after a careful consideration of all phases of the situation it was deter * mined that an application should be * made to the supreme . court of the ' united states when it reconvenes on t monday november 30 for a writ of ! certiorari to bring up and review the ' action of the circuit court of appeals j the necessary papers for this pur â– pose will be prepared without delay ' immediately after the conference to , night mr kellogg who had been sum ' moned from new york to take part ln it was driven to the white house where he had a short consultation with presl ( dent roosevelt mr kellogg returned to new york to-night the purpose of the conferences to-day was to determine finally on the govern ment's br.r making application for the witt of certiorari new points are presented i the appeal to the supreme court was * determined on when judge grosscup ren i dered his adverse decision which had beeu i upheld by the court of appeals tho ' draft of the brief was prepared then but the later decision of the court of appeals : presented new points which the govern i ment desired to take advautage of and the general conference of standard oil prose : eutors was called to weigh the brief as finally drafted i had two alternatives the decision reached at the conference to , carry the flght over the 9,240,000 oil fine to the supreme court ls ln accordance with | the plan contemplated when the circuit court of appeals in Chicago reversed the flne the subsequent affirmation of the de cision by the judges of the intermediate court last tuesday left the government's * legal forces with two alternatives these were to submit to the ruling as ** final judgment and bring the trust to trial ' again on the same indictments or to apply ' for a writ of certiorari in the united ' states supreme court thus getting if the application ts granted the right to review the entire case the choice of the latter course as indi cated ln the attorney general's formal statement was based primarily upon ap parent contradictions in the two opinions given by jndge grosscup and his associates the material differences referred to hv the attorney general ln the concurring opinion given by circuit judge baker also will b made the basis of argument in the high tribunal revives rtunors of friction the development of this point as a legal 1 1 contention by the government lawyers re 1 ' tlv'es recent rumors that there existed con ' siderable friction between judge grosscup and judge baker over the legal merits of i the original opinion in what particular points the two jurists j differ mr bonaparte and his aids decline j to specify also lt has not been made i clear by lawyers participating in the pros 1 ecutlon how a difference of opinion be ! tween the two jurists would affect the le , gallty of final judgment concurred in by nil three members of the court whatever these contention are they will be prepared in printed form for submission ; to the supreme court november 30 the petition for the writ probably will be pre pared ln washington but lt ls likely that before lt ls signed mr sims and mr wil kerson will be called into consultation british squadron to brazil cape town nov 12 the british squadron under bear admiral sir percy scott composed of the cruisers good hope antrim carnarvon and devonshire left here io-day for rio janeiro brazil chinese emperor dead 3-year-o1d nephew on throne is pckin report public refuses to believe official de nial that ruler has succumbed bulletin says end is near pekin nov 32 recurrences of the rumor that the emperor is dead continue ii is also reported that puvl his nephew has beer placed on the throne although it is officially denied that kwang tsu is dead the popular belief nevertheless is that he has succumbed to the affliction from which he has beeu suffering for some time at the same time the officials connected with the imperial household do uot deny that the emperor ls critically ill and that there is no nope of his recovery reports say that in addition to nis other afflic tions his brain is affected and that he is no longer mentally competent it is un derstood that the foreign diplomats have advised their governments that the em peror is very ill and not likely to sur vive every effort ls being made by the im perial household to conceal the emperor's real condition according to announcements from the imperial palace various court functions have been taking place at stated times bnt these declarations are not gen eraliy credited and it is believed that they have been given out only as a blind seme time ago the british and german legations offered the best occidental medical attention nt their command but these of fers were declined by the emperor who replied that as they bad uot been able to cure him of his kidney affection at previous treatments he would rely npon the chinese medicine men atttached to the imperial court prince fuyi who is rumored to have been seated on the throne is the eldest son of th emperor's brother and is not yet three years old any sane man of 21 liable to personal tax if one is outside poorhouse he can not escape says attorney any man who ls twenty-one years old of sound mind and not in the poorhouse is subject to personal tax peter schultz as sistant county attorney so declared yes ie ay after receiving a lei*-r of protest from e p dunshee collector superin tendent of public works and secretary of the board of local improvements it is utterly impossible for a man of mr dunshee's standing to be without per sonal property said the assistant county attorney and then he defined personal property here are some of the things you ought to be paying taxes on the cjdthes you are wearing and the clothes ln your closet your pocketkuife watch chain rings and scarfpins money tnat you bave in the bank or in your purse credits due you from real estate or any other source canes and umbrellas expert to prepare elkins family tree genealogical information will be gathered for royal history elkins w va nov 12 1t is said here to-day that the family of senator s b elkins is considering engaging an ex pert genealogist to compile the elkins fam ily tree with intellectual attainments and social culture miss elkins friends de clare she is gifted by birthright to cer tainly as great a degree as the duke of the abruzal has inherited from his royal ancestry it was reported that miss mar garet wade who has been social secretary to mrs fairbanks wife of vice president fairbanks and who ls one of the best authorities on washington and interna tional society and an old friend of the family has been asked to assist in pre paring the genealogy in event of miss elkins marriage into royalty this genea logical information would be demanded for the royal history and court archives cousin of italian king plans colony in canada ottawa ont nov 12 marquis de longhi de pastorl a cousin of king victor emmanuel of italy ls at present in canada on an important mission for the italian gov ernment â€” the acquisition of a large tract of land ln the west for the purpose of establishing a colony of italians he passed here to-night on his way to vancouver with regards to the contemplated com pany lt is understood the colonist of the better agricultural and industrial classes will be sent out legislator accused of primary frauds republican leader smejkal is likely to be among to day's indictment returns aid jailed for contempt pope who refused subpoena offers to confess after ar rest by court's order kdward j smejkal representative ln the Illinois legislature and prominent leader in the nineteenth ward was yesterday | accused of attempts to lntlm'date voters at the august primaries ln a true bill voted by the special grand jury the indictment will be one of about twenty that will be returned to judge freeman this afternoon and will prob ably be the most important several in ' dietmeuts will be voted this morning and n this number it is possible that another man holding an important public office may be included michael pope 124 pe koven street a po litical supporter of smejkal was sent to jail late yesterday afternoon for contempt of court for iefuslng to appear before the grand jury to give testimony against his leader in connection with the frauds in the twenty-second precinct of the nineteenth ward more indictments expected to-day fourteen indictments had been voted this week against election officials and politicians in the eighteenth and nine teenth wards up to last night and this morning's work will in all likelihood bring the total up to twenty nine true bills were voted yesterday the grand jury made its first official inquiry into the eighteenth yesterday and several indict ments were the immediate result wit nesses from the same two wards will ap pear to-day smejkal was a candidate for renomlna tlon to the lower house of the legisla ture at the primaries he was also a candidate for re-election as precinct cap tain of the republican organization and was successful in both on november 3 he was reelected to the legislature evi dence heard by the grand jury was that smejkal induced several of his friends and helpers to stand near the polling place and frighten away doubtful voters it is understood pope could give the state important testimony regarding the intimidation a grand jury subpoena was served on him at his home late wednes day night to appear at the criminal court building the following morning but he told the special officer that he wonld not go unless an officer was sent for him when be failed to appear yesterday morning the matter was brought to the attention of judge freeman who issued a rule for contempt against him and in structed deputy sheriff w p holden to hrinj bin at once into court pope was located about 4:30 o'clock in an alley ln ihe rear of the daily news office and taken into custody as both judge free man's court and the grand jury bad then adjourned for the eday pope was lodged in jail he will be taken before the grand jury this morning and will later appear before judge freeman rrest may expedite inquiry pope who is twenty-nine years old and a newspaper carrier broke down complete ly after being placed ln a cell and prom ised tbat he will tell all he knows about the frauds this morning attorney loesch thinks his experience will serve as a warn ing and will expedite the inquiry smejkal who will be taken into custody this afternoon is one of the signers of the bond given last week for the appearance of o j chott one of the first men in dicted in conseqnenee lt may be neces sary for chott to find another bondsman this matter will be decided to-day by at torney james h burr who has been placed in charge of the bond department of the loesch organization while the grand jury to-day probes fur ther into conditions in the eighteenth and nineteenth wards the loesch force will be busy with a further preliminary hearing of witnesses from the first ward this work may be completed early next week when reports of fraud in the fourth and fifth may be taken np investigators are collecting evidence now ln the ninth and tenth wards mr loesch will appear ln judge mack's court to-dny to hear the injunction case ln i vvhlch it is sought to restrain the county â– ffieials from paying out any of the 19 r.oo appropriated by the county board for the expenses of the investigation sjiould the injunction be issued no member of the staff will be able to collect salary for the ! present at least the county board will also hold a meet ing to-day after judge mack has passed upon the injunction petition catholic prelate will help Taft boom golf archbishop o'connell of boston be comes devotee of game boston mass nov 12 archbishop o'connell ls doing his share to help presi dent-elect Taft make golf famous whether or not taft's pronunclamento has anything to do with it or not the arch bishop refuses to say but taffs boom of the game appeared in tuesday's morning papers and the archbishop started in for the game tuesday afternoon the arch bishop had his name put np at the oakley country club and the allston golf club the two most exclusive clubs of new eng land in both of which he was admitted to-day he went out to the oakley links in his automobile and took his first lesson i'm going in for a game every day now he said americans do not get enough exercise that is one great trouble with american men to-day golf comes as a great blessing to me stately girl's hat in flames at party friends chat prevents panic when miss graver's paris creation burns gas ignites skyscraper waiter with tablecloth smoth ers fire and young woman takes to bed at a fashionable entertainment yester day afternoon in the big house at 369 su perior street which her grandfather built miss margaret grover met with an acci dent that coat her a paris hat and might have cost her life if a servant had not rushed to her rescue the voluminous piece of french millnery caught fire from a gas jet and flamed up like a torch spreading panic among the hundreds of guests who had assembled there by invitation of mrs jauies breek inridge waller to hear john fox jr read from his own works after the reading the guests moved out to the tea room miss grover tall and stately was among the crowd the paris hat with its beautiful feathers mara bout and ospreys overtopped the crea tions of the shorter women by six or eight inches as miss grover passed under the gas jet the topmost feather caught the flame and began to sparkle like a fuse defore any one could lift a hand the marabout and ospreys were m flames and a flare of fire went up that illuminated the whole room neither miss grover nor miss heleii poole with whom she was chatting knew what had happened although they looked around curiously at the sudden augmenta tion of light in the ten room don't tell her whispered mrs mark willing to mrs john borden if she were to attempt to reach the hatpins now she would only set her gown afire too some one on the outskirts of the crowd who did not have so much presence of mind as mrs willing screamed what in the yorld is the matter said miss grover to her companion what ia all this commotion about do you suppose meanwhile the flames above her wavey brown hair were leaping higher and higher miss lucy blair whispered to a waiter who darted away in search of a tablecloth or something with which to stifle the fire and then she engaged miss grover iu con versation do tell me what is the matter with everybody exclaimed the young woman absolutely unconscious of her peril miss blair changes subject indeed i don't know replied miss blair i heard somebody say that mme seheff had fainted wasn't the reading delightful perfectly lovely said the human torch by this time the other guests had taken their cue from miss blair and mrs will ing instead of rushing wildly out of the room or trying to take miss grover's bat off they laughed and chatted with jicrfeet composure until the waiter returned with a table cloth he made a dash for miss grover that frightened her half out of her wits but the cry she uttered wus smothered in the cloth the mau threw over her head by tbis means the tire was stilled and when miss grover learned of her narrow escape she almost collapsed at her mother's home 408 division street it was stated last evening that she had taken to her bed althouga she had not been burned in the least miss grover is iu no condition to dis cuss the accident now was the message that was brought downstairs mrs waller said last night that she had not heard of the accident until it was ali over i don't think ls could have been very serious she said because there was no panic or anything of that sort miss grover is a granddaughter of gen eral f h winston who put up for himself the home now occupied by the wallers entertainment nets 1,000 the entertainment yesterday afternoon was a benefit for the self s pporting worn â– en's home and netted about 1,000 aiuoug me guests we,e iu frltzl scheff who ls engaged to marry mr fox mrs alexander stevenson mrs edward blali miss lucy blair mrs franklin mucveagh mrs martin mr and mrs arthur j eddy mrs james stone mrs bryan lathrop mrs harold mecormick mrs george cobb mrs redmond stephens mrs lyon miss marjorle bob bins miss margaret bllliugs mrs moses wentworth mrs charles c cedset mrs john k gott mrs frederick j winston mrs bertie winston miss dorothy fuller miss margaret cobb mrs john borden mrs mark willing mrs w j calhoun miss helen poole and mrs j m harlan girl whose blazing hat broke up reading friend who averts panic in the wpper picture is shown the young woman whose hat ca-ughi fire at entertainment ; beloiv her friend who coolly chatted ivith her until aid arrived and thus prevented injury or panic scientist lost ten years found insane m w harrington once weath er bureau head in asylum as john doe no 8 new york nov 12 a search lasting the greater part of ten years and extend ing from one end of the country to the other ended a few days ago when profes sor mark w harrington once chief of the united states weather bureau nnd one of the best known scientific . men in america wns found a hopeless lunatic in the xew jersey asylum for the insane at morris plains until last monday professor harrington was registered as john doe no 8 picked up in a park in trenton eighteen months ago unable to give bis name and witb no papers on his person to disclose his identity professor harrington was sent to morris plains where he might have remained for the rest of his life had not his son raymond harrington read in a western paper three weeks ago a descrip tion of a mysterious patient in the asylum young harrington's suspicions were aroused and he communicated with his mother who lives ln this city mrs har rington visited morris plains when john doe no 8 was led into her presence she identified him as her long missing hus band he however did not recognize her until last monday iu the morris plains asylum said mrs harrington to-night 1 had not seen my husband for nearly ten years when he disappeared in the latter part of october 18ud we were living with our sou raymond iu mount vernon that morning professor harrington kissed ray mond and myself good-by and said he was going to new york ou a business mission he did not return i began a round of the hospitals oue day 1 received a str-juge sounding letter from liiiu the following february i re ceived a letter postmarked washington lu that 1-tter he said he expected to receive a government appointment he did uot say a word as to why he had left home or when - expected to return / one month later a letter from my sister in baltimore told me that she had seen uiy busbaud ou the street there but did not speak to him as he seemed demented i made up my mind that he had deserted me and our boy then the other day came the letter from raymond when the mysterious patient at morris plains was ushered into my presence i knew him immediately as mv loug-missiiig liiisb.iiiil but he did not seem to know me kern is asking aid in fight for senator ship laporte ind nov 12 a1l doubt as to the candidacy of johu w kern for united states senator was removed to night by the receipt of a letter by johu rl faulkner democratic representative elect soliciting his support northern lu diaua democrats are generally favoring b f shlveley of south bend but in the event of a break kern la likely to be fa vored joke on roosevelt wall street smiles president is to be editor of magazine owned by a standard oil man new york nov 12 theodore roose velt should he hold to his contract with the outlook company to be special edi torial contributor will be indirectly ou the payroll of the standard oil corpora tion the oil corpora n couldn't buy mr rooseveit on the hoof as it did other public men but it harnessed him just the same at a contract price to add circula tion to a publication in which one of its big men is the controlling owner men in wall street those who win real success never have two eyes closed nt the same time so it is said and this encour ages a habit of learning all about every body's business not out of curiosity but in the hope that lt may pay some day there was amusemeut therefore last week among bankers who know things when tlie news was confirmed that after march 4 mr roosevelt would draw a fat salary from the outlook nud speak to ever increasing thousands exclusively through tlie publication a few wall street men who have regarded the president as the one man ln public life who couldn't be fooled gasped when they tirst htard tiie news and then laughed immoderately the story was too good to keep and in un adorned i*onn was made public to-day in tlle lawyers club the ' chief owner of the outlook com pany is james stillman president of the national city bank and one of the chief financial advisers of the standard oil and harriman properties the chief editor of the outlook in the rev dr lyman abbott whose great distinction was won ! when he succeeded the rev henry ward beecher as pastor of plymouth church [ it is said mr stillman own a clear ma | jority of the outlook company's stock and when officials of the publishing concern ! were offered an opportunity to deny this to-day they declined all they would say was tbat there would not be any change in the present control there wits bidden humor therefore as wall street saw it in the announcement by the outlook that the duties of mr roosevelt as special con tributor would be analogous to that of consulting engineer this is john i rockefeller's one best joke said a pro-ninent financier to-night when be heard about it puritans committing race suicide is charge boston mass nov 12 1n a paper on the perpetuation of the church read at the union conference of the congrega tional churches of boston nnd vicinity t*e rev g l cady of dorchester declared the puritan stock is committing race sui cide i find he said fifty-six churches which boa.it of a single ehnd each for last year nnd sixty-three wrhleh reported twins each his figures showed twenty-three chi rclu ... which with a combined membership ot 7,494 with 7,270 in tt suu.l â– seta â€¢;,;_, and with 1.474 young pe ie in the endeavor societies were able iu a year to show nly six new births woman tries to hire men to kill her mother such is the charge upon which mae otis is held by the police offered 2,500 they say detectives play part of thugs and are paid 100 in advance victim's wealth sought demure bookkeeper credited with having suggested the trap for parent kx tss mae otis a demure book i 1 keeper employed by the â€¢ â– *** kleine optical company waa arrested last night and locked up ln the harrison street police station an nex on the charge of attempting to procure the murder of her mother mrs sarah otis a widow who lived in the rear of 328 walnut street unknown to her the thugs she employed were two detectives from the central station dennis mackey and peter fitzpatrick i don't want a poor job she told them last night when she . gave their 100 as a sort of retaining fee un derstand now she isn't to be injured a little bit and sent to the hospital . if that were to happen it would be all up with me i want the job done right we're the men to do lt right . swaggered mackey gives note for 2,400 more very well then said miss otis here's your hundred and here's m note for 2,400 more when the job ii done the funeral is over and i hava the money the sum for which this seemingly mild and harmless young woman desired tha : life of her mother waa 7,300 if the daughter bad happened to get hold of a real thug there ts no doubt that the deed wonld have been done next saturday night captain of detectives o'brien bays mrs otla was to be summoned bad from mnuston wis where she ls visiting her parents mr and mrs w jackson falker and a married sister mrs mary underwood she was to be under the im pression that she was returning to the home of another married sister mrs anna . smith where she had lived while ln chl , cago the fact tbat mrs smith had . moved to 871 park avenne a few days ago was to be concealed from her i all details are planned it had all been figured on.t by the daug ter to the minutest detail the road which her mother would take from mauston the station where she would get off the time of her arrival and the time that would be required for her to get to her old home in the rear of 328 walnut street there , the murderers were to be lying ln wait foi . her ' , t no mention was made as to the method . to be used in the killing that was left entirely to the judgment of the supposed ; thugs miss otis only stipulation was 1 that it was not to be a bad job and ; that there shouldn't be any hospital pre i lude to the death of the old woman calls on private detectives about a week ago the bookkeeper ealle ; at the offlce of r c stolpman superln itendent of the keystone detective agency ishe gave him her name and address and ihe rather liked her manner and treated her , i witb the utmost deference miss otis la 1 j thirty-six years old but looks mnch yonng er she boards at 640 forty-sixth place . i want you to find out something about jmy mother's estate she said to superin tendent stolpman yes ma'am answered the detective settling back in his chair and waiting fot further details his attitude seemed to embarrass the woman and she toyed nervo-usly with her handkerchief for several mliinies before resuming the conversation you said yoo wanted some information prompted stolpman and then according to captain of de tectives o'brien the following converst tions and events look place yes i do replied the woman tou see ihis is the situation my father died twelve years ajio and left a lot of money â€” i don't know just how much i ought to have got some ot it but i didn't get a cent and i have to slave for siy living while mother sralavant aronnd the country . and baa â€¢>. good time s e l only hfty-seven years om and goodness knows when she will die now wnnt i v.-__ii pan to do lg to find ont how money she has nnd whnm it te placed btpjpnun took ibe commission and said weather forecast Chicago and vicinity partiy cloudy and continued cool friday and saturday moderate westerly winds iuimx___iim oooooooooo â€” i the methods j 1 employed by the ex i 5 \ aminer to bring results i 0 i to its help and situa 1 2 \ tion wanted advertis i d i ers are modern they i q 1 combine newspaper pub 1 g \ licity witfi the best fea 1 q 1 tures of employment i 2 i agency methods if you 1 ps \ are a competent worker 1 q 1 in search of a situation i q \ you cannof afford to 1 q \ overlook the merits of 1 q i the examiner's situ 1 2 \ ation wanted columns 1 q i try them and receive the 1 o \ benefits of the service j x 1 of the 8 examiner employment exchange i 70 washington street 115 fifth avenue i 776 milwaukee avenue lcst character cannot be recovered through a want ad but lost property can be especially if the ad be inserted in the examiner's lost and found columns phone ran dolph 2500